it’s a bad idea to wait on their parents to acknowledge unfairness, because what if their parent is just stubborn about it, they usually go “oohhhh … huh,” and then decide to declare victory after some other, more tractable benchmark.
On that note, if anyone has had a hard time successfully explaining AI risk to a family member, I’ve tested Toby Ord’s chapter on AI risk from The Precipice and then both of my stubborn 65-yo parents were convinced that AGI is a serious problem, after more than 5 years of knee-jerk skepticism. Toby Ord made a real effort, and the resulting 13 pages seem to work for an unusually wide variety of people.
You’d be surprised how valuable that can be, turning things around in all sorts of different ways that you had never really given much thought to. Instrumentally valuable, not just emotionally.
On that note, if anyone has had a hard time successfully explaining AI risk to a family member, I’ve tested Toby Ord’s chapter on AI risk from The Precipice and then both of my stubborn 65-yo parents were convinced that AGI is a serious problem, after more than 5 years of knee-jerk skepticism. Toby Ord made a real effort, and the resulting 13 pages seem to work for an unusually wide variety of people.
You’d be surprised how valuable that can be, turning things around in all sorts of different ways that you had never really given much thought to. Instrumentally valuable, not just emotionally.